From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f69.google.com (mail-pg0-f69.google.com [74.125.83.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7046B002C for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:28:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pg0-f69.google.com with SMTP id m19so1141637pgv.5 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net. [45.79.88.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n1-v6si5870495pld.589.2018.02.12.07.28.53 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:28:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:28:49 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Documentation for Pmalloc Message-ID: <20180212082849.1377f7e6@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20180210033714.GA12711@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20180130151446.24698-1-igor.stoppa@huawei.com> <20180130151446.24698-6-igor.stoppa@huawei.com> <20180130100852.2213b94d@lwn.net> <56eb3e0d-d74d-737a-9f85-fead2c40c17c@huawei.com> <20180210033714.GA12711@bombadil.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Igor Stoppa , jglisse@redhat.com, keescook@chromium.org, mhocko@kernel.org, labbott@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, cl@linux.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 19:37:14 -0800 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I've done this as the first line of my new documentation files: > > .. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 > > I think this is the CC license that's closest in spirit to the GPL without > the unintended consequences of the GPL when used on documentation. The > GFDL seems to be out of favour these days. I think that's a great license. I still fear that it is not suitable for kernel documentation, though, especially when we produce documents that include significant text from the (GPL-licensed) kernel source. The result is almost certainly not distributable, and I don't think that's a good thing. The GPL is not perfect for documentation, but I don't think that we have a better alternative for in-kernel docs. jon -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org